Thursday, 10 April 2014

And here is the last figures in this batch. And now I have started to plan for a third wave. :-)

This is a NCO using a submachine gun. The Swedish army was very late at adopting them. It is originally a Finnish model called Suomi KP/31. The biggest difference between the Finnish and Swedish model was the bullet used for it and the magazine. The Finnish had a round drum magazine, while the Swedish had a straight one. The first Swedish model was called kpist m/37, but it was the next model m/37-39 that was widely used by the army.

Another sooldier with a light machine gun. Same gun as in the first figures, just another pose.

Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Nothing new in a very long time. I have been playing Dust, working and being with my family instead.

But now I have something new to show you!
New freshly pained figures for my Ådalen range!
It is a medium machine gun with crew. The machine gun was called "ksp m/14" (ksp = kulspruta = ball sprayer) and was used until 1943 by the army. At that time it was transfered to the Home Guard (Hemvärnet). It was not originally from Sweden, but Austria, where it was known as the Schwarzlose MG m07/12. It was used by the Austro-Hungerian army during WW1 and by Dutch, Hungerian and Greek armies during WW2.

The crew wears a standard m/10 uniform.

So when will it be available for purchase? Soon I hope.

Edit: As Hammers on Lead-adventure forum points out the machinegun is a Schwarzlose.